New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-12

DEVILS trade Of murder.
The Jersey City authorities have at last con-
| sented TO permit the Pennsy lvania railroad to
elevate it's tracks. The reason for the prolonged
delay il has not been easy to perceive 1t is clear
| that the change will lie an improvement Of I'M
common value to the public. and the city was
not asked TO pay a cent of the expense. The work
will cost the railroad a million dollars probably,
and when completed the company will be able
to give up gates and gatemen at street crossings
and also 70 run its trains at higher speed. The
company will gain much, but the public will
gain more.
Mayor Chaplin will undoubtedly be a vast
improvement upon Mayor Whitney; but one thing
the people of Brooklyn would like TO know is
whether he is going to perpetuate the system OF
repotism which has grown rank under Mr.. Whit
neys administration.
The singing of "Annie Lawricr by the soldiers
of the Crimea is the theme Of one Of Bayard
Taylor's most beautiful ballads How strange
discord that old fashioned song made yesterday
in the Chicago Jail falling from the lips Of one
Of the Anarchist murderers upOn the ears Of his
cOmpanions in crime. The "Marseillaise" was
more appropriate death song for the doomed men.
IL is small wonder that the property owners
along Wcst-Side-avc. are moved to protest against
the tree planting of the Board Of Public Works.
The sidewalks thirty feet broad. and where
they paved next the property line, fine
strip of turf is left between the walk and the
whoclway. A row of trees fifty feet apart at
least, through tie centre Of this stretch Of sward
is no doubt needed. But the Board is planting two
rows with the trees but thirty feet in the row.
which means that none Of them will have space
70 develop into fair specimen. The price If this
work is sl8 per tree, and at this figure the
contractor should at least furnish symmetrical
and we'll grown plants. But these are swamp
naples that have apparently been dug from
swamp At oil events, no reputable nurseryman |
would think of filling an order with such stock
Bare poles chopped square off at the end after
the brutal fashion Of uneiucated planters, leaving
a stub TO rot into the trunk. will insure death |
before mature size is reached. There seems 10 be /
n superstition that amputatcd pole without /
head, without branches. without symmetry, il /
only tranSplancd to some roadside, will develop /
into rs shapcly tree ms a sapling that branches
at the proper distance from the ground and is
already spreading into It's proper form. This is
fatal error 1t may be doubted whether scarlet
NAPLES are ever good city trees in New-York.
Certainly when dcformcd lopsided saplings from
the woods are huddled together these are the
eighteen dollars that each one costs may as
well be tossed into tie river.
There was only one native born American in
the group of seven Chicago murlerers. Anarchist
crime is foreign graft upon the old stock of
native institutions and is to De burned out as
with fire.
The appearance of gangs of ROSTERS in the
sc
untimcly. This month is sacred 10 another bial,
even he turkey President Cleveland and Cover
nor Hill practically said as much in their Thanks
giving Iroclamations. The turkey while not boast
ing of the stormdaring pinon" of the eagle
the magnetic Of the rooster. has
second Joint all his own. Room for hin-rcmove
those impcrtnent roosters.
or all the irrational slcculatOns to which
this Anarchist business has given rise, none is
more unreasonable than the idea that the manner
Of Lngg's suicide showed him TO DO insane This
is always the easiest thing TO say Of a man whose
actions out Of the common. and so il is said
OF Iingg. The fact is that there has never been
the least indication Of insanity about the man,
far as his actions have been reported, and his
suicide of the SaneSt things lie ever did
Nothing was more natural than that n man Of
his desperate character, and having the physical
courage he evidently possessed should be ready
to Kill himself in any WAY he could rather than
endure the torture of watching his death hour
gradually creep toward him. No doubt he would
have preferred an easier death. but this was the
only means he had. and he probably expected
to die instantly. Ilngg apparently moral
monster of much the same sort as Guitcan, but
his mind was vastly better balanced Indeed his
conduct previous TO the lIaymarlket massacre and
sill shows him N buNc bppn IA m If cNrpptiOuat
abilities with no other indication OF insanity than
Is afforded extraordinary depravity. But the
theory of moral insanity" is no longer accepted
either by the medical profession the world
mt large
The discontnuancc OF the Anarchists in Chicago
was followed by the prompt strangulation Of their
organ in this city The leader gurglcd its
last gasp yesterday.
Tho proprietors OF Chickcring Hall are hardly
likely 10 carry out their threat clcsc the hall
if the requirements Of the Buildings Bureau in
the matter Of fire escapes insisted on. Still
$4,000 does seem too much to require them TO
pay out for this purpose. Probably compromise
can Dc arranged. BY the way. is the dangerous
custom Of locking the doors OF the hall during Mr.
Adlcr's lectures on sunday mornings still kept mp?
Tho Buildings Bureau has difficulty in getting
men to serve as inspectors. One trouble is that
the salary is too small. This work is Of great
Importance and experienced and honest
needed The recent collapse in Harlem showed that
the inspectors arc Ian in performing their duties
and also brought out the fact that an inspectors
district is too large to allow him to give adequate
attention to all the buildings going up in the busy
season. These things ought to be rcmcdicd.
IL is stated that Doctor William Everett. of
the Massachusetts Mugwump contingent knows
Nrgirs Encid by heart. That's interesting But
it would be TO tho point To know if the
Doctor knows by heart Mr.. Clcvclands letter